Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian
physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of …

From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential
features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging …

Este artigo pretende problematizar as abordagens vigentes sobre a gênese da medicina
tropical no Brasil, pondo em cena atores, conceitos e práticas médicas do período …

Rankin-Hill presents an analysis of the skeletal remains of approximately 140 members of
the First African Baptist Church (FABC) who were interred between c. 1822 and 1843. This …

By analyzing several medical treatises written during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, this chapter discusses the experience that the authors of these texts accumulated …

It was evident from the very beginning of the colonization of the Americas that the West
African had experienced a biological past which differed in significant ways from that of other …

I s T o R IAN s of Latin America have only recently begun to revise the longstanding image of
nineteenthcentury Latin American physicians who faithfully (and passively) reproduced …

Archaeological studies have primarily focused on reconstructing the lifestyles of African
American communities in the north eastern United States and southern plantations. This …

IsTORICAL writings on Portuguese America have|| reached the point, in both mass and
quality, that they have become the object of critical evaluation by the international …

This dissertation is a re-examination of a group of doctors in Brazil in the second half of the
nineteenth century called the Escola Tropicalista Bahiana. It uses new historiographical …